Litigation
Tossing Write-In's Ballots Violated Voters' Rights, Lawyer Says
By Claude Walbert
SAN DIEGO - Rejecting ballots for a write-in candidate in November's mayoral election may have upheld state election rules but...
SAN FRANCISCO - Environmental groups filed suit in federal court Thursday to block a government plan they said would allow ex...
SANTA ANA - As Christopher Hammer and Arthur Smelt looked on, their attorney argued in federal court Thursday that laws prohib...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Ex-Fiancé Must Return Most Of $14.9 Million Award He Won
By Dan Evans
LOS ANGELES - The ex-fiancé and lawyer of billionaire newspaper owner Wendy McCaw must give back most of a $14.9 million arbit...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Montana pedophile justly defied federal officials who tried to coerce him into confessing past crimes as pa...
SAN FRANCISCO - Kathleen Fisher, a longtime Morrison & Foerster trial lawyer and one of the firm's top rainmakers, has te...
INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - An affiliate of Westcore Properties LLC sold a 34,357-square-foot research-and-development building lo...
SAN FRANCISCO - Seeking to avoid the grim prospect of being removed from the bench for fixing traffic tickets, Yuba County Su...
SAN JOSE - The state's tepid economy has cooled the once red-hot legal battles between California companies and out-of-state ...
Focus Column - Tax Law - By M. Katharine Davidson and Mark A. Saulino. - On Oct. 22, 2004, President Bush signed into law the ...
LOS ANGELES - In a victory for California cities battling risqu behavior at strip clubs, a federal appeals court on Wednesday...
LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge has refused to reinstate a lawsuit against the Walt Disney Co. in a closely w...
WASHINGTON - Attorney general nominee Alberto Gonzales came one step closer to confirmation on Wednesday, winning approval fro...
LOS ANGELES - A split state appellate court Wednesday affirmed the nearly four-year sentence of a methamphetamine user, saying...
LOS ANGELES - Smartly dressed in a suit and tie, Gabrielino High School Junior Steven Tan walked to the podium, peered at the...
SAN FRANCISCO - A former deputy county counsel has sued Alameda County claiming she was denied promised assignments and raise...
Personal Injury & Torts
Derailment Is Likely to Spawn Much Litigation
By Leslie Simmons
LOS ANGELES - The deadly Metrolink derailment caused by a suicidal man early Wednesday that killed 10 commuters likely will sp...
LOS ANGELES - A church law expert says a judge wrongly relied on his writings to order the Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archdio...
SAN FRANCISCO - John Hemann, the former prosecutor of Enron CEO Andrew Fastow, will leave the U.S. attorney's office in San F...
Entertainment & Sports
'Dune' Writer's Estate Claims Game Maker Took Advantage of Giant Worm
By Garry Abrams
Column - By Garry Abrams - Nobody gets off this planet without paying more royalties. The 1965 science fiction novel "Dune" by...
INDUSTRIAL SORRENTO MESA - Alexandria Real Estate Equities purchased Nancy Ridge Research Center, a two-building, 87,298-squa...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archdiocese asked a Court of Appeal Tuesday to block an order forcing it to give...
LOS ANGELES - The world's largest law firm resolved one legal mess at the end of 2004, but it faces an even bigger one this ye...
Appellate Practice
Justices Back Mother Who Got Between Young Lovers
By Linda Rapattoni
SAN FRANCISCO - If Romeo had hired a lawyer to challenge a restraining order won by Juliet's mother, would Shakespeare have t...
Letters to the Editor - Your reporters consistently refuse to do their homework when they report on male domestic-violence vic...
Government
Public Employee Unions Turn Turtle, Resist Access to Government Papers
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - Public employee unions, once steadfast supporters of open government and freedom of informati...
Forum Column - By Joshua Spivak - Over the last several years, a slow, steady drumbeat has called for changes to the infamous ...
Administrative/Regulatory
New Filing Rules Play Havoc With Family-Court Calendars
By Columnist
Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - Periodically, someone in Sacramento gets an idea that he or she thinks is a good one and c...
SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Alameda County Superior Court Judge John A. "Jack" Burke, a "wonderful gentleman" who spent nearly 25...
SAN DIEGO - A state appellate court ruled Tuesday that a mobile-home rent-control ordinance adopted in Santee is valid even t...